building at 235 East 57th Street

Back in the Rudy years, the homeless were rounded-up and taken to city-run shelters, for their own good.
Nobody likes to step-over homeless people, outside the building where they live.

Back in the 1980's, in an East 85th Street ( non-high-rise building, no doorman co-op building, right off Fifth Avenue) my then boyfriend and I walked to work each morning, along Madison Ave.
In the cold weather there was always a homeless guy/person, asleep in the building's vestibule.
We left a breakfast of an egg/bacon/cheese on a roll and a thermos of hot coffee for him/her, every morning.
The super told us that those homeless people would wake-up, eat the breakfast and then go outside.

They went "outside" to Central Park, the subway or wherever the homeless went during the daytime hours.
The residents of the building were o.k. with it because they had compassion for those homeless people and allowed them to take shelter from the cold in the Building's vestibule.

We came home in the evening and the vestibule was empty. They must have come in, during the late-night, extreme cold hours and slept on the floor.

We were snug in the penthouse, with a nice fire-place to keep us extra warm.

whitedesert: Do you live in 235, or nearby on 57th between 3rd and 2nd Avenues?